Name: Slayed
ISBN: 9781416994879

Amanda Marrone

Resigning herself to the family vampire-slaying business, Daphne Van Helsing and her family members are summoned to a town in Maine, where they discover a formidable new vampire species and Daphne falls for the son of rival slayers.

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Briar's Reviews

Slayed was a fun, cutesy type of pre-teen novel centering around the ancestor of the Van Helsings.

Daphne Van Helsing is not your typical teen - she is a vampire slayer! If you couldn't tell by the title. This book centers around her family and the trouble they get into being vampire slayers. It's very cute, and the plot is fun, but it's not made for the older YA audience. This one seems more appropriate for the pre-teen audience - it's kind of teeny bopper cute, with lots of little antics that happen more so in the Percy Jackson-esque young audience (not to say that older YA don't read that to, but it wasn't directed towards the more mature YA audience).

Overall, I really enjoyed it! It was a cute novel! I would definitely like to read more by Amanda Marrone! 

There is definitely some parts of it that the mature YA audience won't like - protective parents letting their daughter fight deadly creatures? They must keep in mind the pre-teen audience would identify with that - protective parents but wanting to go out on their own and be "adults".

Three out of five stars! Definitely cute!

Courtney Gendreau

This is by no means a hot best seller, but it be a good novel for those looking for a quick read. 

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